[Gambas-user] comment blocks on gambas3?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Jason Hackney schrieb:
> I'd have to agree with you there. When I first grabbed Gambas, I tried
> to insert a long, multi-line comment using /*, */. After I figured out
> that wasn't going to work, I looked around and saw the " ' '" method
> and said to myself, "aw crap, just like VB!".
> 
> So, I empathize with ya, but I've gotten to the point where I don't
> care either way now.
> 


Don't know if anyone is still following this thread, but the other day I 
thought that it might be nearly impossible to implement this in the 
editor at least. Let me add my ideas here :-)

I had some experiments with the editor for one of my own projects some 
months ago. Trying to make it suitable for my own type of Printer Forms, 
I found that it does not properly support block mode. At least I didn't 
find a sensible way of having a block of lines optically changed, e. g. 
by just saying "from line x to line y" or following an expression in {} 
over more than one line.

For instance, it did make a number of lines gray or whatever, but when 
you went up with the cursor line by line through the block, the 
information was lost and they changed back to the color codes within the 
specific line (each line was parsed for itself again). The same thing 
happened when you edited one of the lines in the block. It didn't help 
either to try stopping this intentionally, or at least I didn't find a 
way to do so ;-)

Sure, at this time, for a usual BASIC dialect, only line mode is 
important. But wouldn't block mode be an important feature in case of 
block comments?

Rolf